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• RuPaul gave me life: How “Drag Race” pulled me back from the depths of depression

  21-03-2016 23:59 via salon.com
  
  “The time has come for you to lip-sync … for your life.”The first time I heard RuPaul dramatically utter these words, a weekly contestant elimination standard on Logo’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” was 2009.That statement, followed by a pair of spotlights arcing dramatically around a pair unfortunate drag queens who didn’t make the grade that week, marks the beginning of the end for one unfortunate.Not before the bottom two defend their right to cla
  
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• “Parenting isn’t safe, it’s challenging”: Clive Owen on building trust with his young “Confirmation” co-star

  21-03-2016 23:58 via salon.com
  
  Clive Owen, whose breakout role was the title character in “Croupier,” plays “Go Fish” with his character's 8-year-old son Anthony (an excellent Jaeden Lieberher) in “The Confirmation.” This new comedy-drama, written and directed by Bob Nelson (who penned “Nebraska”), features Owen as Walt, an alcoholic carpenter who has lost his house, his money, his marriage and his truck when his tool set, a family heirloom, is stolen.The film shows the craggy-f
  
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• Going somewhere? Try one of the 10 places named as most ethical travel destinations

  21-03-2016 23:57 via salon.com
  
  The late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, an inveterate wanderer, described life as “a journey through a wilderness.” With a skyrocketing human population currently consuming the equivalent of 1.6 planets' worth of resources and expected to reach a mind-boggling 9.6 billion by 2050, that wilderness is rapidly disappearing, especially in the industrialized world.Canada has been the world's leader in forest loss since 2000, accounting for more than a fifth of global def
  
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• Stryper gets in on the Ted Cruz meme: Christian heavy metal band confirms he won’t tour with the band!

  21-03-2016 23:27 via salon.com
  The internet has been having way too much fun with Ted Cruz's face, which Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi memorably wrote, "looks like someone sewed pieces of a waterlogged Reagan mask together at gunpoint." Cruz's striking visage has led online sleuths to spawn conspiracy theories linking him to the Zodiac Killer, Robert Kardashian, Kevin from "The Office," Grandpa Munster and Duke basketball player Grayson Allen.But our favorite Cruz conspiracy theory says that t
  
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• Trouble for Trump’s chief: Allegations of assault, sexual harassment piling up against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski

  21-03-2016 22:20 via salon.com
  
  Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's campaign manager, has been under a heap of scrutiny for allegedly manhandling former-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and, more recently, for yanking the collar of a protester at a rally over the weekend.What's worse, according to BuzzFeed, Lewandowski allegedly has a lengthy track record of lewd and aggressive behavior:(T)he strategist was accused of pushing a CNN reporter who tried to ask the candidate a question; physically confronting an aide for
  
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• “Took pandering to a new level”: Progressives, Palestinians criticize Hillary Clinton for “Israeli PR” AIPAC speech

  21-03-2016 21:45 via salon.com
  
  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton headlined the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, on Monday.She aggressively voiced support for Israel and hard-line right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and made no mention of the Israeli military's almost five-decade-long illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.Clinton also blasted her opponent Bernie Sanders, the only presidential candidate to turn down the invitation to speak at the AIP
  
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• “We should not be immune or afraid of critics”: President Obama retains optimism as Raul Castro criticizes U.S. policy during historic Cuba meeting

  21-03-2016 21:39 via salon.com
  
  After acknowledging the "serious differences" that exist between the United States and Cuba, President Obama declared a “new day” in U.S.-Cuban relations during a news conference with Cuban President Raúl Castro on Monday.The two leaders briefly answered questions from media on the first full day of Obama's historic visit, the first by sitting a U.S. head of state in nearly ninety years. The president arrived in Havana on Sunday with the first lady and their daughters.&nb
  
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• Happy Birthday, Twitter: Watch 10 years of news, #hashtagged

  21-03-2016 21:28 via salon.com
  
  In honor of Twitter's 10th birthday, relive the news through twitter hashtags. Remember the #gulfoilspill?Continue Reading...
  
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• 13 glorious times John Oliver destroyed Donald Trump

  21-03-2016 21:26 via salon.com
  
  Not too long ago, John Oliver didn't hesitate to tell Stephen Colbert in an interview that he "couldn't give less of a sh*t" about Donald Trump.But that was before Trump won multiple states and last night John Oliver spent 18 wonderful minutes on HBO's Last Week Tonight demolishing Donald Trump's proposed wall.Oliver game Trump no mercy, tackling everything from Trump's apparent cluelessness about the actual cost of the wall to his lack of a plan to get Mexico to fund it.But it wasn't the first
  
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• “He all but pushed me into a wall”: Reporter says Ted Cruz’s security officer roughed her up; campaign quickly apologizes

  21-03-2016 21:13 via salon.com
  
  Emma Dumain, a political reporter for a Charleston newspaper, tweeted Monday that she was being roughed up by a member of Ted Cruz's security staff, who "all but pushed me into a wall," not realizing Dumain was a member of the press.https://twitter.com/Emma_Dumain/status/711988485582774272After the incident, the campaign was quick to perform damage control, bringing the officer out to personally clear the air.https://twitter.com/Emma_Dumain/status/711991043072200704https://twitter.com/Emma_Dumai
  
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• Dancing with the political stars: A deep analysis of the candidates’ usually terrible dance moves

  21-03-2016 21:08 via salon.com
  
  Contrary to popular belief, white-guy-dancing isn't flailing with reckless abandon.The white-guy-dancer approaches the dance floor already sweating through his tuxedo vest, having been coerced by a more willing party who's made him feel lame for sitting during "Cotton-Eye Joe." He's seen "Hitch" and so thinks he knows how to discreetly feel the rhythm. He shifts his weight between feet, late on the beat — never early. His soggy spaghetti arms stagnate in a gray-area of
  
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• Lena Dunham’s biggest haters are Bernie fans: “I’m going to turn into a shaking ogre woman” over smears from fellow Dems

  21-03-2016 21:03 via salon.com
  
  When you think of all the horrible things that have been said to and about Lena Dunham, you'd have to wonder if she'd be hard-pressed to pick the sources of some of the really outstanding stuff. This after all is a woman who's been called am incestuous sex abuser for memoir revelations like bribing her sister for kisses when they were children. A woman who, in her own estimation, has routinely been described as "fat and hideous." One whose veiled description of a man she says sexually assau
  
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• Elizabeth Warren stops being polite and starts getting real: “Let’s be honest – Donald Trump is a loser”

  21-03-2016 20:11 via salon.com
  Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has taken a lot of flack recently for failing to throw her support behind either Democratic presidential candidate (let's be honest -- behind Bernie Sanders) and while she's acknowledged that both abstaining from her own White House run and refusing to support any particular campaign has left some of her progressive supporters disappointed, she's absolutely no longer reticent to comment on the ridiculousness that is the Republican presidentia
  
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• Six-year-old girl in Chicago handcuffed for allegedly stealing candy from a teacher

  21-03-2016 19:57 via salon.com
  Elementary school student, Madisyn Moore was reportedly handcuffed for stealing candy from a teacher’s desk while at school on Monday, NBC Chicago Reports.The 6-year-old who attends Fernwood Elementary in Chicago, was reportedly pulled out of her class and handcuffed under the stairs by a male teacher.“He snatched me out of my class," Madisyn told the news station. "He made me get out in my handcuffs.”Her mother, Marlena Wordlaw, arrived at the scene 50 minutes after receiving
  
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• Did Donald Trump’s foundation break the law with a shady contribution to the Florida attorney general?

  21-03-2016 19:21 via salon.com
  
  Campaign finance records show that Donald Trump's charity foundation might have made an illegal contribution to a group associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi while her office was considering whether to join a $40 million lawsuit against Trump University, The Hill reports. In a complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) requested an investigation into the donation.Florida 
  
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• Donald Trump is The Joker: Forget Mussolini and Hitler, the GOP strongman is an authoritarian populist straight from Hollywood

  21-03-2016 19:07 via salon.com
  
  Perhaps there was a time when politics and popular culture inhabited two entirely separate spheres, but those days are long gone. Back in 1995, when John Kennedy, Jr., launched George magazine, he acknowledged that politics had crossed over into the world of pop culture and vice versa, and that you had to begin thinking of pols the way we thought of celebrities and entertainers.While that may be true, we don’t often consider how popular culture, specifically the movies, has come not only t
  
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• Bernie’s revolution could still disappear: Why a more progressive America is by no means guaranteed

  21-03-2016 19:04 via salon.com
  
  Consider this fact: Since the primaries began in early February, the oldest presidential candidate in the field has received more votes from people under 30 than the two party frontrunners combined.Senator Bernie Sanders, the 74 year-old democratic socialist, has galvanized millions of millennials with his anti-establishment message, and in Michigan earlier this month, he pulled off “one of the greatest upsets in modern political history”
  
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• Trumpism’s deep roots: If Republican leadership thinks dropping Trump will solve their problems, they’ve got another thing coming

  21-03-2016 18:37 via salon.com
  
  For those high-profile Republicans who swore they’d never support Donald Trump under any circumstances, the twilight struggle goes on. Mitt Romney is still rallying voters to Sen. Ted Cruz with all the enthusiasm an an undertaker; and, meanwhile, Salt Lake City is being reimagined as the #NeverTrump Alamo.But as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump recently pointed out, if the anti-Trump brigade has any chance of succeeding, it’s going to need to maintain a level of organized disc
  
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• Conservatives vs. contraceptives: In both Florida and in the Supreme Court, right wingers hungry to control women’s sexuality are targeting birth control

  21-03-2016 18:28 via salon.com
  
  Nothing is surer proof that the "pro-life" movement is more motivated by desire to control female sexuality than to protect embryonic life than the movement's increasingly open hostility to contraception. While anti-choicers will invariably snort and take umbrage at the claim that they hate birth control, there is an undeniable increase in efforts to make it harder for women to access affordable contraception, efforts that are more in line with punishing sex th
  
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• 10 years of Twitter fail: Where Donald Trump’s “Sad!” thoughts flourish and Kim Kardashian has more followers than the Pope

  21-03-2016 18:07 via salon.com
  
  Today marks the 10th anniversary of Twitter -- originally called Twttr -- which launched with a modest tweet by founder Jack Dorsey. In the tech world, 10 years is a long time, and some people are celebrating it the way they would a wedding anniversary or a child’s birthday. Entertainment Weekly is sharing the first tweets of celebrities:https://twitter.com/EW/status/711908739306156037The Independent is chronicling important moments in Twitter.https://twitter.com/Independent/status/71
  
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• Sam Brownback, America’s worst governor: He’s gutted Kansas with an ultraconservative, religious agenda — and it’s getting worse

  21-03-2016 18:05 via salon.com
  
  The Wicked Witch of the West (as in the Wizard of Oz) doesn’t have anything on Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and the state's ultraconservative legislators. Since 2010, they’ve been filling the skies with flying monkeys as they’ve increasingly waged war on public education.For those state leaders who subscribe to supply side economics and many of the discredited ideas of Arthur Laffer, the privatization of public education is a necessary component of the march to zero incom
  
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• Bill Kristol’s anti-Trump fantasy: The always-wrong pundit has an absurd scheme to save the GOP

  21-03-2016 17:54 via salon.com
  The New York Times published a big piece this weekend diving into the newest flurry of anti-Donald Trump activity by conservative activist groups and pundits, and it really is a must-read if you want to understand the depths of desperation professional conservatives are feeling now that Trump has bounced Marco Rubio from the presidential race.The focus of the story is on the renewed efforts to deny Trump wins and delegates in upcoming primary states, combining what the Times calls “an arra
  
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• Is there life after “Life on Mars?”: David Bowie’s death has made this ubiquitous song so painful to hear

  21-03-2016 17:46 via salon.com
  
  A day or two after David Bowie died, I was in denial and I still am. I decided the best thing to do was to work on my current book, which does not include much about Bowie only… well, every film he’s ever made. So I rented Ridley Scott’s excellent “The Martian,” and lost myself in Matt Damon’s wry and moving performance until… boom, “Life on Mars,” is played on the soundtrack. Now this film is a high tech, suspense with lots of special effe
  
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• How jingoism wasted the world: Why liberals finally need to admit that the Afghanistan invasion was wrong

  21-03-2016 17:23 via salon.com
  
  In 2004, John Kerry neatly summarized what had come to pass for liberal anti-war sentiment: Bush "rushed the nation to war” in Iraq and “took his eye off the ball—off of Osama bin Laden.” Kerry -- who, in a high-point of craven pandering, saluted on stage at that year's Democratic National Convention, announcing that he was “reporting for duty” -- had voted for the Iraq war as well. But he was advancing the long-held conventional liberal wisdom, that Afgh
  
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• Sanders shouldn’t quit: Top Democrats are implying that Bernie should wind down his campaign — here’s why they’re wrong

  21-03-2016 17:20 via salon.com
  I've accepted that Bernie Sanders is likely to lose the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton. It's not over yet, but Clinton is certainly well-positioned. However, if there's one thing the Democratic establishment should not do at this point, it's tell Bernie Sanders to quit. For one, Sanders has a right to campaign as long as he wants – he's earned it. Secondly, Sanders's campaign has shattered expectations for a reason: his message is resonating with disaffected voters.Sanders exists
  
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• Jesus gets the “Glee” treatment: Fox’s “The Passion” undermines Easter with an unabashed, pandering ratings stunt

  21-03-2016 17:18 via salon.com
  
  In Fox’s “The Passion,” Jesus (Jencarlos Canela) obtains fishes and loaves for the Last Supper from an obliging New Orleans food truck, dubs Peter (Prince Royce) the rock on which he will build his church in a hip coffeeshop, and faces off with “Roman” law enforcement under the pilings of the Algiers Bridge. There’s something curiously appealing about the reimagining of the story of Easter in the reborn New Orleans—it’s book-to-screen adaptation re
  
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• Britney Spears Puts Her Amazing Bikini Body on Display!

  21-03-2016 14:50
  
  Britney Spears took to her Twitter account on Sunday (March 20) to show off her incredible bikini body!
  The 34-year-old entertainer posted the photo on her official account with the caption, “Just chilling.” It looks like Britney had an amazing first day of Spring by the pool!
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  Later that day, Britney posted a cute family photo on the golf green, which you can see in the gallery below.
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• Trump praises campaign manager after video shows him violently yanking a protester: “I give him credit for having spirit”

  21-03-2016 14:27 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump applauded the strong-arm tactics of his controversial campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, after video proved he violently yanked an anti-Trump protester during a campaign rally over the weekend.“I give him credit for having spirit," Trump told ABC's George Stephanopoulos during an interview on Sunday. At the Republican frontrunner's heavily protested rally in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday, Lewandowski was caught on video grabbing a protester by the collar to yank him away
  
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• George Will tells Fox News the GOP should nominate Merrick Garland because God only knows “who Trump might put on the Court”

  21-03-2016 13:48 via salon.com
  
  Conservative syndicated columnist George Will appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to suggest that with Donald Trump leading at the polls, it would be in Republicans' best interest to hold hearings on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, because "if Trump [becomes] the president-elect, I don't know how you guess who he might want to put on the court.""What's puzzling," he continued, "is the Republican Senate leaders who are [delaying the hearings] have all s
  
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• Conservative S.E. Cupp on Trump: That’s not a “dog-whistle” you hear, those are “dog screams”

  21-03-2016 13:19 via salon.com
  
  Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp appeared on CNN's State of the Nation on Sunday to discuss the possibility of a successful Donald Trump nomination, and attacked the Republican front-runner in language more typically heard from critics on the other side of the aisle.
  "I don't think it's a dog-whistle," she said in response to former South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Dick Harpootlian's comment that Trump's ascendance marks a return to the GOP's "dog-whistle" appeals to "the silent majority.
  
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• 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Jeffrey Lord continues his Trump apology tour

  21-03-2016 13:03 via salon.com
  
  As anti-Trump protesters gathered in New York and Arizona, Donald Trump continued his petty spats with Megyn Kelly and Mitt Romney. Because that seemed really important to him, and he never forgets a slight.The candidate continued his mostly inane babbling on the campaign trail, questioning Mitt Romney's Mormonism for no apparent reason except that it popped into his free-associating mind, and asserting that he talks to himself for advice on foreign policy because he has "a very good brain." Me
  
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• The Republicans’ SCOTUS obstruction proves that things are only going to get worse in Washington

  21-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Last week's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia sparked another round of speculation about whether or not the Republicans were on the verge of sobering up and becoming responsible leaders who will perform their duties as prescribed in the Constitution. President Obama has offered them a man of the highest integrity who by all accounts is extremely well-liked by members of both parties. And although he is seen as a memb
  
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• “It’s the Devil. Okay?”: Alex Jones warns listeners not to be “creepy” & angry — then raves about alien invasion

  21-03-2016 12:59 via salon.com
  
  While rending our garments over the insanity on display among the Republican presidential candidates, Alex Jones, radio conspiracy theorist and exploiter of paranoiacs across the nation, has continued his daily performance-art installments practically unnoticed.After Donald Trump appeared on Jones's show back in December, the radio host has continued to campaign in earnest for the GOP frontrunner. Most recently, Jones delivered one of his most twisted rants ever, all in the name of sup
  
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• “Israel is occupation-addicted”: Israeli journalist Gideon Levy blasts U.S. support for “apartheid” & rise of fascism

  21-03-2016 12:58 via salon.com
  
  “Israel is occupation-addicted,” said renowned Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz."The drug addict who is your friend, if you give him money, he will really care about you. But are you really caring about him?" asked Levy, who called Israel's almost 50-year-old illegal military occupation of Palestinian land "criminal," "brutal" and "rotten."He was speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for the annual Israel's Influe
  
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• Behind the music on “Vinyl”: This is why David Bowie cover bands are so rare

  21-03-2016 12:57 via salon.com
  
  “Cyclone,” the sixth episode of “Vinyl,” the HBO drama from Martin Scorsese about the music business in the 1970s, opens with main character Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) on a major, multi-day cocaine bender (no, seriously, even bigger than previously). He runs out of a rehearsal studio as the unmistakable chords of none other than “Suffragette City” by David Bowie roar out of a Les Paul, the edge of which swings into the corner of your screen, and you rea
  
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• Paul Krugman: The GOP needs Trump to evict them from the halls of power and into “the political wilderness”

  21-03-2016 12:56 via salon.com
  
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• “It’s a big, dumb thing that only gets more expensive over time”: John Oliver punctures Donald Trump’s one serious policy proposal

  21-03-2016 11:02 via salon.com
  
  "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver returned to Donald Trump last night -- specifically to dive deep into his plans for a "beautiful wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border."The border wall is one of the few policy proposals Trump has talked about in detail," Oliver began. "So, instead of mocking or dismissing it out of hand, tonight let's take a serious proposal by a serious presidential candidate seriously."In terms of cost, Trump initially quoted his wall at $4 billion, or one-third of
  
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• Donald Trump is a delusional crybaby: In the GOP’s long con, rich white people are the new victims

  21-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  As I stood in line for Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago last Friday, a young white man grumbled behind me that, “Don’t white lives matter too?”Apparently, a Black Lives Matter T-shirt worn by a young woman walking past us had angered him.His question is an outgrowth of lies such as “reverse racism” and complaints that asking white people not to use the word “n****r” is somehow “unfair” or “racist.” Alas, even in post-civil ri
  
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• America is overdosing on religion: How the presidential election got taken over by theocrats and zealots

  21-03-2016 10:59 via salon.com
  
  Although someday I'd like to run for my local school board, I doubt I ever will. The single biggest factor holding me back (in my own mind) is the fact that I'm an outspoken atheist. I'm not only “out of the closet”; I've also written quite a lot that can be mined for nuggets to discredit me as a human being. No matter what the Constitution says, there remains a powerful, de facto religious test for public office, and it has bubbled up to the surface this election far worse than
  
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• Desperate delegate games: With Trump and Hillary firmly in command, challengers are banking on long-shot strategies and trickery to stay alive

  21-03-2016 10:58 via salon.com
  
  We’re a bit more than halfway through the presidential primary season, and on both the Republican and Democratic sides it’s looking more and more like the front-running candidates – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton – will end up securing their parties’ nominations. Trump’s chief remaining rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz, needs to win roughly 90 percent of the remaining delegates in order to clinch the nomination outright, while John Kasich would
  
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• Donald Trump’s dark magic: How the GOP front-runner seduces his followers to increasingly violent ends

  21-03-2016 10:57 via salon.com
  
  Earlier this month, protesters disrupted a Donald Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, among them a young man named Rakeem Jones. As he and the others were being escorted out, John McGraw, a 78-year-old Trump supporter, punched Rakeem in the face in full sight of the crowd, the police and the cameras. The police managed to not see the punch and detained Mr. Jones instead.In the moments after the punch, Mr. McGraw basked in the glory of his personal contribution to American “gr
  
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• America’s broken healthcare has fallen off the radar. Here’s why we can’t afford to let that happen

  21-03-2016 10:56 via salon.com
  
  “I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.” -- Martin ShkreliLast September, when so-called “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli was revealed to be the CEO of a drug company that had increased the price of a 62-year old medicine commonly used by AIDS patients by more than 5,000 percent, Republicans and Democrats had finally found something to agree on. What followed was bipartisan disdain for the former hedge-fund manager. Donal
  
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• On the green today with these munchkins 💚 #SundayFunday https://t.co/fgTSLO46mO

  21-03-2016 00:34 via twitter.com
  
  On the green today with these munchkins 💚 #SundayFunday https://t.co/fgTSLO46mO
  
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• I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion

  21-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  I once loved a man who hung a huge Confederate flag on his living room wall. This was a strange turn of events for me, a woman who at various stages of life has been described as a commie pinko, a bleeding heart liberal and a vegan, un-American Femi-Nazi. And yet, I not only hooked up with this guy; I started a relationship with him and stayed with him for almost a decade. He was a punk dude I met in the grocery store, a wily intense artist. These days I’m thinking of him--and his flag&mda
  
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